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Example sentences for: surly

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The surly spins: 1) Gen Xers don't know him and think his name refers only to burger joints.
Under Brill's system, I could pay $20-$40 a year to license a used revolver; take a joke of a test administered by a surly, bored, bureaucrat; and carry a concealed weapon anywhere in the country.
"I could see no sign of the Planet attitude, no surly looks in the eyes of the kids behind the cash register," she writes.
Indeed, the grandeur and flashing wit of the surly Florentine and the enigmatic Englishman have much in common.
A real-estate broker who fails to sell a big house (her only potential customers are blank-faced African-Americans, Indian-Americans, and surly lesbians), she wears a mask of perky efficiency and insists on listening to Muzak while she and her husband and daughter eat her "nutritious yet savory" dinners.